Chennai International Queer Film Festival

Chennai International Queer Film Festival (also known as Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival) is a three-day LGBT- event that usually takes places on the last weekend of July as a part of the city's pride events. The main organizers are SAATHII and Orinam in partnership with Goethe-Institut, Chennai. The other volunteers include various community groups and NGOs, including Nirangal, East-West Center for Counselling, and RIOV. The last day is usually performances along with a panel discussion, usually to discuss and bring out the challenges faced by community members. [1]

Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival
LocationChennai, India
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.ciqff.org

Background

This LGBT-film festival is being held from 2005 in the city.[2] The shorts, documentary and feature film submissted usually explore the intersections among sexuality/gender identity and other forms of marginalization, also including those based on gender, disability, immigrant/refugee status, caste, socio-economic class, religion, age, and race/ethnicity.[3][1]

2017

The 12th queer film festival in 2017 saw 27 films, which were chosen from nearly 70 submissions from 12 countries.[4] The event also saw a panel discussion about the activism in the south of India, around LGBTQIA, titled `South of the Norm: LGBTIQA+ activism in southern India'.[5]

Movies Screened

Some of the movies screened include:

Year Title Country Theme
2017 Siebzehn (Seventeen) Germany Lesbian
2017 Abar Jodi Ichchha Karo (If you dare desire) India Lesbian
2012 All About Our Famila India Hijra
2017 Ladies and Gentlewomen[6] India Lesbian
2016 Ka Bodyscapes India Gay
2016 Is It Too Much To Ask?[7] India Trans woman

2016

It is the fourth time the Goethe-Institut is collaborating with the Reel Desires. Of the 80 films received, the organizers chose 26 films from eight countries. Some notable movies were Sridhar Rangayan’s National Award-winning Breaking Free, Chennai-based Sairam Biswas’s It Adhu But Aanaal and also the acclaimed Aligarh. The panel discussion this year was about "Ending Gender and Sexuality-based Violence".[1][8]

2015

Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2015, will be held from 24 to 26 July at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in Chennai. The festival will screen 23 films from eight countries, out of which some of the significant ones are Pride, the 2014 Cannes Film Festival award winner, Walking the Walk by Moses Tulasi, Aakkamum Thaakkamum (portrayals of transgender women in Tamil Cinema) and more.[9][2][10]

2014

In 2014, the festival also hosted a photography exhibition by Shilpa Raj, a Bengaluru-based photographer, and social activist. Her exhibits were transgender people posing in diverse avatars, charting the transition from male to female in 14 stills. There were also photos that establish references to Ramayana and Mahabharata. Some of the noteworthy movies screened were Kyunki, an Indian Submission, Eyes that do not see, from USA, Kumu Hina, a Hawaiian movie and Not funny from Germany.[11]

2013

2013 the organizers received around ninety one films from 22 countries, out of which 35 films including shorts, documentaries, and feature films were screened. These were from India and over 10 countries. The three-day event was from 11 to 13 July 2013 and some movies screened were Gay_Lonely, about a 30-plus gay man, Kuch Palon Mein, Veena Kulkarni’s ‘Reminiscene of Ether’, Debalina Majumder’s ‘Ebang Bewarish (And the Unclaimed)’ among others.[12][13]

See also

References
  1. "Where the mind is without fear". Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Preeti Zachariah (24 July 2015). "Preview: Chennai International Queer". Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  3. Baradwaj Rangan. "The genre and the specific". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. "Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2017". 25 July 2017.
  5. "Chennai: Queer film festival returns, explores asexuality and more". 27 July 2017.
  6. Chitradeepa Anantharam (27 July 2017). "Celebrating queer pride".
  7. Abinaya Kalyanasundaram (26 July 2017). "Real queer stories on reel".
  8. "Chennai's LGBTQ Film Festival Is Back: Looking At Queerness, Sex-Work And More!". 29 July 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  9. "LGBT Film Festival On July 24–26 In Chennai". 22 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  10. RAHUL SADHU (27 July 2015). "Queer film festival comes to Chennai". Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  11. "Bringing out the 'Reel' desires". New Indian Express. 26 July 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  12. "Reel Desires- Queer Film Festival".
  13. BARADWAJ RANGAN (9 July 2013). "Nothing queer about it!". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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